awesome-ruby

A collection of awesome Ruby libraries, tools, frameworks and software
https://github.com/eric-erki/awesome-ruby

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Abstraction
- dry-rb - dry-rb is a collection of next-generation Ruby libraries, each intended to encapsulate a common task.
- ActiveInteraction - Manage application specific business logic.
- Apotomo - Based on Cells, Apotomo gives you widgets and encapsulation, bubbling events, AJAX page updates, rock-solid testing and more.
- Cells - View Components for Rails.
- Decent Exposure - A helper for creating declarative interfaces in controllers.
- Docile - A tiny library that lets you map a DSL (domain specific language) to your Ruby objects in a snap.
- Interactor - Interactor provides a common interface for performing complex interactions in a single request.
- Light Service - Series of Actions with an emphasis on simplicity.
- Mutations - Compose your business logic into commands that sanitize and validate input.
- Rails Event Store (RES) - A library for publishing, consuming, storing and retrieving events. It's your best companion for going with an event-driven architecture for your Rails application.
- Surrounded - Encapsulated related objects in a single system to add behavior during runtime. Extensible implementation of DCI.
- Trailblazer - Trailblazer is a thin layer on top of Rails. It gently enforces encapsulation, an intuitive code structure and gives you an object-oriented architecture.
- Waterfall - A slice of functional programming to chain ruby services and blocks, thus providing a new approach to flow control.
- wisper - A micro library providing Ruby objects with Publish-Subscribe capabilities.
- ActiveInteraction - Manage application specific business logic.
- Responders - A set of Rails responders to dry up your application.
Admin Interface
- ActiveScaffold - ActiveScaffold provides quick and powerful user interfaces for CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations for Rails applications. It's excellent for generating admin interfaces, managing Data-Heavy Applications, creating Widgets or for quick prototyping. ActiveScaffold is completly customizable and offers a bunch of additional features including searching, pagination, layout control and overrides of fields, forms and templates.
- Administrate - A Rails engine that helps you put together a super-flexible admin dashboard, by Thoughtbot.
- bhf - A simple to use Rails-Engine-Gem that offers an admin interface for trusted user.
- Trestle - A modern, responsive admin framework for Rails. Build a back-end in minutes that will grow with the needs of your application.
- RailsAdmin - A Rails engine that provides an easy-to-use interface for managing your data.
- ActiveAdmin - A Ruby on Rails framework for creating elegant backends for website administration.
- bhf - A simple to use Rails-Engine-Gem that offers an admin interface for trusted user.
- Typus - Ruby on Rails control panel to allow trusted users edit structured content.
Analytics
- Ahoy - A solid foundation to track visits and events in Ruby, JavaScript, and native apps.
- Analytical - Gem for managing multiple analytics services in your rails app.
- Gabba - Simple way to send server-side notifications to Google Analytics.
- Impressionist - Rails Plugin that tracks impressions and page views.
- Legato - Model analytics reports and queries against the official Google Analytics Reporting API.
- Rack::Tracker - Rack middleware that can be hooked up to multiple services and exposing them in a unified fashion.
- Staccato - Track analytics into the official Google Analytics Collection API.
API Builder and Discovery
- ActiveModel::Serializers - JSON serialization of objects.
- Blanket - A dead simple API wrapper.
- Crepe - The thin API stack.
- Fast JSON API - A lightning fast JSON:API serializer for Ruby Objects.
- Her - an ORM that maps REST resources to Ruby objects. Designed to build applications that are powered by a RESTful API instead of a database.
- jbuilder - Create JSON structures via a Builder-style DSL.
- JSONAPI::Resources - JSONAPI::Resources, or "JR", provides a framework for developing a server that complies with the JSON API specification.
- JSONAPI::Utils - JSONAPI::Utils is built on top of JSONAPI::Resources taking advantage of its resource-driven style and bringing an easy way to build modern JSON APIs with no or less learning curve.
- Jsonite - A tiny, HAL-compliant JSON presenter for your APIs.
- Pliny - Opinionated template Sinatra app for writing excellent APIs in Ruby.
- rabl - General ruby templating with json, bson, xml, plist and msgpack support.
- Rails::API - Rails for API only applications.
- Spyke - Interact with REST services in an ActiveRecord-like manner.
- Version Cake - An unobtrusive way to version APIs in your Rails app.
- versionist - A plugin for versioning Rails based RESTful APIs.
- jsonapi-rb
- Her - an ORM that maps REST resources to Ruby objects. Designed to build applications that are powered by a RESTful API instead of a database.
- Roar - Resource-Oriented Architectures in Ruby.
Assets
- Asset Sync - Synchronises Assets between Rails and S3.
- Autoprefixer - Parse CSS and add vendor prefixes to rules by Can I Use.
- Bourbon - A Lightweight Sass Tool Set.
- bower-rails - Bower support for Rails projects.
- Emoji - Exposes the Phantom Open Emoji library unicode/image assets and APIs for working with them.
- Less Rails - The dynamic stylesheet language for the Rails asset pipeline.
- Less - Leaner CSS, in your browser or Ruby.
- Sprockets - Rack-based asset packaging system.
- Torba - Bower-less bundler for Sprockets.
- Webpacker - Use Webpack to manage app-like JavaScript modules in Rails.
- Rails Assets - Bundler to Bower proxy.
Authentication and OAuth
- Authlogic - Authlogic is a clean, simple, and unobtrusive ruby authentication solution.
- Clearance - Small and simple email & password based authentication for Rails.
- JWT - JSON Web Token implementation in Ruby.
- Knock - Seamless JWT authentication for Rails API.
- Monban - A very simple and extensible user authentication library for rails.
- OmniAuth - A library that standardizes multi-provider authentication utilizing Rack middleware.
- Rodauth - Authentication and account management framework for Rack applications.
- Shield - Authentication protocol for use in your routing and model context.
- Sorcery - Magical Authentication for Rails 4, and Rails 5.
- warden - General Rack Authentication Framework.
- Doorkeeper - An OAuth2 provider for Rails.
- OAuth2 - A Ruby wrapper for the OAuth 2.0 protocol.
- Devise - A flexible authentication solution for Rails based on Warden.
- Monban - A very simple and extensible user authentication library for rails.
- warden - General Rack Authentication Framework.
Authorization
- acl9 - Acl9 is a role-based authorization system that provides a concise DSL for securing your Rails application.
- AccessGranted - Multi-role and whitelist based authorization gem for Rails.
- ActionPolicy - Authorization framework for Ruby and Rails applications. Composable, extensible and performant.
- Authority - ORM-neutral way to authorize actions in your Rails app.
- CanCanCan - Continuation of CanCan, an authorization Gem for Ruby on Rails.
- Declarative Authorization - An authorization Rails plugin using a declarative DSL for specifying authorization rules in one place.
- Petergate - Easy to use and read action and content based authorizations.
- Pundit - Minimal authorization through OO design and pure Ruby classes.
Automation
- Danger - Automate your team's conventions surrounding code review.
- Huginn - Huginn is a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online.
Caching
- redis-store - Redis Store provides a full set of stores (Cache, I18n, Session, HTTP Cache) for modern Ruby frameworks like: Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Rack, Rack::Cache and I18n. It supports object marshalling, timeouts, single or multiple nodes, and namespaces.
- Action caching for Action Pack - Action caching for Action Pack.
- Dalli - A high performance pure Ruby client for accessing memcached servers.
- Garner - A set of Rack middleware and cache helpers that implement various caching strategies.
- IdentityCache - A blob level caching solution to plug into ActiveRecord.
- Kashmir - Kashmir is a Ruby DSL that makes serializing and caching objects a snap.
- Readthis - High performance, pooled, ActiveSupport compliant caching with Redis.
- Record Cache - Cache Active Model Records in Rails 3.
- Second Level Cache - Write-Through and Read-Through caching library for ActiveRecord 4.
- redis-store - Redis Store provides a full set of stores (Cache, I18n, Session, HTTP Cache) for modern Ruby frameworks like: Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Rack, Rack::Cache and I18n. It supports object marshalling, timeouts, single or multiple nodes, and namespaces.
- Dalli - A high performance pure Ruby client for accessing memcached servers.
Captchas and anti-spam
- Invisible Captcha - Unobtrusive and flexible spam protection based on the honeypot strategy. It also provides a time-sensitive form submission.
- Rakismet - Easy Akismet and TypePad AntiSpam integration for Rails.
- reCAPTCHA - reCaptcha API helpers for ruby apps.
- Voight-Kampff - A Ruby gem that detects bots, spiders, crawlers and replicants.
CLI Builder
- Clamp - A command-line application framework.
- Commander - The complete solution for Ruby command-line executables.
- GLI - Git-Like Interface Command Line Parser.
- Hanami CLI - General purpose Command Line Interface (CLI) framework for Ruby.
- Main - A class factory and DSL for generating command line programs real quick.
- Optimist - A commandline option parser for Ruby that just gets out of your way.
- Rake - A make-like build utility for Ruby.
- Slop - Simple Lightweight Option Parsing.
- Terrapin - A small command line library (Formerly Cocaine).
- Thor - A toolkit for building powerful command-line interfaces.
- TTY - Toolbox for developing CLI clients.
- Thor - A toolkit for building powerful command-line interfaces.
- TTY - Toolbox for developing CLI clients.
CLI Utilities
- Awesome Print - Pretty print your Ruby objects with style -- in full color and with proper indentation
- Betty - Friendly English-like interface for your command line. Don't remember a command? Ask Betty.
- colorize - Extends String class or add a ColorizedString with methods to set text color, background color and text effects.
- colorls - Beautifies the `ls` command, with color and font-awesome icons.
- formatador - STDOUT text formatting.
- Paint - Simple and fast way to set ANSI terminal colors.
- Pastel - Terminal output styling with intuitive and clean API.
- Ru - Ruby in your shell.
- Ruby/Progressbar - The most flexible text progress bar library for Ruby.
- Tabulo - Ruby ASCII table generator. Produce highly readable terminal tables, even from large, unwieldy data sets and streams.
- TablePrint - Slice your data from multiple DB tables into a single CLI view.
- Terminal Table - Ruby ASCII Table Generator, simple and feature rich.
- Tmuxinator - Create and manage complex tmux sessions easily.
- Whirly - A simple, colorful and customizable terminal spinner library for Ruby.
- Pastel - Terminal output styling with intuitive and clean API.
Cloud
- AWS SDK for Ruby - The official AWS SDK for Ruby.
- browse-everything - Multi-provider Rails engine providing access to files in cloud storage.
- Fog - The Ruby cloud services library.
- humidifier - Programmatically generate and manage AWS CloudFormation templates, stacks, and change sets.
- humidifier - Programmatically generate and manage AWS CloudFormation templates, stacks, and change sets.
- browse-everything - Multi-provider Rails engine providing access to files in cloud storage.
CMS
- Alchemy CMS - A powerful, userfriendly and flexible Open Source Rails CMS.
- Camaleon CMS - A dynamic and advanced content management system based on Ruby on Rails 4.
- PushType - A next generation, open source content management system for Ruby on Rails.
- Radiant - A no-fluff, open source content management system designed for small teams.
- ComfortableMexicanSofa - Powerful Rails 5.2+ CMS Engine.
- Fae - Flexible, open source, Rails CMS engine.
- Publify - A self hosted Web publishing platform on Rails.
- Storytime - Rails 4+ CMS and bloging engine, with a core focus on content.
- Camaleon CMS - A dynamic and advanced content management system based on Ruby on Rails 4.
- Refinery CMS - An open source Ruby on Rails content management system for Rails 5.2+.
- PushType - A next generation, open source content management system for Ruby on Rails.
- Spina CMS - A beautiful CMS for Rails developers.
Code Analysis and Metrics
- Barkeep - Barkeep is a fast, fun way to review code. Engineering organizations can use it to keep the bar high.
- Brakeman - A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications.
- Cane - Code quality threshold checking as part of your build.
- Coverband - Rack middleware to help measure production code coverage.
- Fasterer - Make your Rubies go faster with this command line tool highly inspired by fast-ruby and Sferik's talk at Baruco Conf.
- Flay - Flay analyzes code for structural similarities. Differences in literal values, variable, class, method names, whitespace, programming style, braces vs do/end, etc are all ignored. Making this totally rad.
- Flog - Flog reports the most tortured code in an easy to read pain report. The higher the score, the more pain the code is in.
- fukuzatsu - Complexity analysis tool with a rich web front-end.
- MetricFu - A fist full of code metrics.
- Pippi - A utility for finding suboptimal Ruby class API usage, focused on runtime analysis.
- Reek - Code smell detector for Ruby.
- Rubycritic - A Ruby code quality reporter.
- Scientist - A Ruby library for carefully refactoring critical paths.
- Sorbet - A static type checker for Ruby.
- Suture - A Ruby gem that helps you refactor your legacy code.
- Traceroute - A Rake task gem that helps you find the dead routes and actions for your Rails 3+ app
- Pronto - Quick automated code review of your changes.
- rails_best_practices - A code metric tool for rails projects.
- SimpleCov - Code coverage for Ruby 1.9+ with a powerful configuration library and automatic merging of coverage across test suites.
Code Formatting
- prettier - A prettier plugin for the Ruby language.
- Rubocop Rails - A RuboCop extension focused on enforcing Rails best practices and coding conventions.
- Rubocop Rspec - Code style checking for RSpec files
- Rubocop Performance - A RuboCop extension focused on code performance checks.
- Rubocop Performance - A RuboCop extension focused on code performance checks.
- RuboCop - A static code analyzer, based on the community Ruby style guide.
- Rubocop Rails - A RuboCop extension focused on enforcing Rails best practices and coding conventions.
- Rubocop Rspec - Code style checking for RSpec files
Code Highlighting
- CodeRay - Fast and easy syntax highlighting for selected languages.
- pygments.rb - A Ruby wrapper for the Python pygments syntax highlighter.
- pygments.rb - A Ruby wrapper for the Python pygments syntax highlighter.
- Rouge - A pure Ruby code highlighter that is compatible with Pygments.
Code Loaders
- Zeitwerk - An efficient and thread-safe Ruby code loader.
Coding Style Guides
- Best-Ruby - Ruby Tricks, Idiomatic Ruby, Refactoring & Best Practices.
- fast-ruby - Writing Fast Ruby. Collect Common Ruby idioms.
- Fundamental Ruby - Fundamental programming ruby with examples. Threads, design patterns, data structures, OOP SOLID principle, algorithms.
- fast-ruby - Writing Fast Ruby. Collect Common Ruby idioms.
- Rails style guide - Community-driven Rails best practices and style for Rails 3 and 4.
- RSpec style guide - Better Specs { rspec guidelines with ruby }.
- Ruby style guide - Community-driven Ruby coding style.
- Ruby Operators - A webpage showing awesome names for different Ruby operators.
Concurrency and Parallelism
- Concurrent Ruby - Modern concurrency tools including agents, futures, promises, thread pools, supervisors, and more. Inspired by Erlang, Clojure, Scala, Go, Java, JavaScript, and classic concurrency patterns.
- EventMachine - An event-driven I/O and lightweight concurrency library for Ruby.
- forkoff - brain-dead simple parallel processing for ruby.
- Parallel - Run any code in parallel Processes (> use all CPUs) or Threads (> speedup blocking operations).
Configuration
- Chamber - Surprisingly customizable convention-based approach to managing your app's configuration.
- Configatron - Simple and feature rich configuration system for Ruby apps.
- Configus - Helps you easily manage environment specific settings.
- dotenv - Loads environment variables from `.env`.
- Econfig - Flexible configuration for Rails applications.
- ENVied - ensure presence and type of your app's ENV-variables
- Envyable - The simplest YAML to ENV config loader.
- Figaro - Simple, Heroku-friendly Rails app configuration using `ENV` and a single YAML file.
- Global - Provides accessor methods for your configuration data.
- Sail - A lightweight Rails engine that brings an admin panel for managing configuration settings on a live Rails app.

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awesome-ruby

Abstraction

Admin Interface

Analytics

API Builder and Discovery

Assets

Authentication and OAuth

Authorization

Automation

Caching

Captchas and anti-spam

CLI Builder

CLI Utilities

Cloud

CMS

Code Analysis and Metrics

Code Formatting

Code Highlighting

Code Loaders

Coding Style Guides

Concurrency and Parallelism

Configuration